Sorry Trent, love your music, but my experience with Apple Music so far has been complete garbage. After iTunes completely wrecked my library and I started over fresh, playlists and music are still refusing to sync to my iOS devices and it's making songs available offline that I never told it to. I'll stick with what's worked for me for all these years, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Trent Reznor Shares his Thoughts on Apple Music: 'The Experience is What Matters'
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That's exactly the feeling I got after first opening Music! It felt so much like, were I Trent Reznor and sitting down with the people at Apple, I'd be in a respectful, collaborative environment!
It didn't make the UI more intuitive or anything, but it was nice.
How do set my songs to be clean version instead explicit on the new iTunes music?
The playlist syncing appears totally broken, and yet it is currently the only way to get music onto an Apple Watch.
Apple Music is, IMO, a completely broken platform. It also happens to have the best music that is available right now, but hopefully Spotify will use this opportunity to negotiate better deals with the labels and make up the gap. I want to use Apple Music but it really does suck.
Apple managed the feat of actually making me compliment Spotify's UI design. That's how bad iTunes is.
Yeah, I'm sure you know better than the greatest single figure in the last 20 years of American industrial rock.
Get that busch league nonsense out of here.
Edit: Seriously, do you even listen to music?
This isn't 1.0, it is 12.2. iTunes has been garbage for over a decade now.
That's not the same thing. Sorry. Apple Music is a 1.0 implementation.
I knew it was going to be like this when I saw that they kept the same bubble crap from Beats. Hate to say it but you need a guy like SJ for these things. It's like they're just piecing stuff together trying to make things work like a mix of Twitter, Spotify, older Beats, Instagram. Connect is just Ping with an Instagram/Twitter UI. Only this time around artists and labels were ready to embrace it. At least the music and curation is good.
It is the same thing. iTunes was trash a week ago, it is still trash today. Most of the issues people have been having have existed for years, it's just that we are actually going back to using iTunes again, and are reminded of how awful it is.
We are talking about user experience. That is iTunes. I'm not sure what your point is.
The point is you don't know the difference between Apple Music and iTunes (and they're very different).
Music is an experience separate from the UI piece anyway.
Not really, considering it's a refresh of Beats.
Except it's not really at all. At the best, it's an amalgamation of two separate services which are so different, Apple Music in and of itself is a 1.0 product.
I'm sorry, I don't see an argument in this post, just a personal attack and a meaningless statement. Please try again.
My argument: Apple Music and iTunes are NOT the same implementation. Apple Music is a 1.0 product which is a mold of Beats Music and iTunes Music store. It is not enough like either product to be labeled anything but a 1.0 product.
No decent music in the last 20 years? I can't even.... Just admit you don't like anything and move on. And yes, the EXPERIENCE is just as important, because I don't know, if I can't find my music, then what's the point and Apple Music destroyed my nicely organized music library.
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I've come to accept that Apple just doesn't know how to make good applications anymore. If you watched some of the developer sessions on design, you will know that Apple is a bit preachy and arrogant when it comes to design and good user experiences. The new music app is bad in combination with Apple Music.
Starting with the selection of interests and artists to assemble your profile. This bubble interface is utterly confusing and very unwieldy. You actually need to read the label to understand how it works and the controls are not intuitive in themselves. For instance, you need to tap and hold on a bubble to signal that you are not interested in this genre/artist and tap on it to make it bigger (and more important). Aside from nearly all the artists on the bubbles were unknown to me. No way to add a suggestion of your own. The 'experience' goes wrong from the start.
The structure of the app is overwhelming and condusing. I frequently just click on different tabs now because I can't seem to remember where some things were located. In particular the For You, New and Radio tabs all have different UIs, different logics with different degrees of drilling down, with inconspicuous and sometimes small touch targets. When you start a search you effectively occupy one of tabs completely and you may get lost even more when you switch tabs. I am also annoyed by the fact that the app doesn't always behave like you would expect. For instance, tapping on a song in your Recently Added section in My Music will only play that one song. It won't treat the Recently Added section as a playlist or add your other songs to your Up Next list, you have to do that manually. The Stations section is something I don't understand yet either. It seems that you can make new stations, but you can't do anything else with it. You can't give further input. It's almost like a random playlist based on one base song.
I don't know what they were thinking. They couldn't be away further from human interface principles anymore.
Starting with the selection of interests and artists to assemble your profile. This bubble interface is utterly confusing and very unwieldy. You actually need to read the label to understand how it works and the controls are not intuitive in themselves. For instance, you need to tap and hold on a bubble to signal that you are not interested in this genre/artist and tap on it to make it bigger (and more important). Aside from nearly all the artists on the bubbles were unknown to me. No way to add a suggestion of your own. The 'experience' goes wrong from the start.
The structure of the app is overwhelming and condusing. I frequently just click on different tabs now because I can't seem to remember where some things were located. In particular the For You, New and Radio tabs all have different UIs, different logics with different degrees of drilling down, with inconspicuous and sometimes small touch targets. When you start a search you effectively occupy one of tabs completely and you may get lost even more when you switch tabs. I am also annoyed by the fact that the app doesn't always behave like you would expect. For instance, tapping on a song in your Recently Added section in My Music will only play that one song. It won't treat the Recently Added section as a playlist or add your other songs to your Up Next list, you have to do that manually. The Stations section is something I don't understand yet either. It seems that you can make new stations, but you can't do anything else with it. You can't give further input. It's almost like a random playlist based on one base song.
I don't know what they were thinking. They couldn't be away further from human interface principles anymore.
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Even though Beats1 always seems to work I find the Radio just as buggy and unreliable as the old version which is why I stopped using it last time it rolled out. I constantly get unable to start messages on most of the stations. I don't understand why they can't get that right. Radio on AppleTV was a much better implementation.
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This article highlights one of the biggest issues with Apple Music: that it forces you to use iTunes Match, something that has been around for a year (and is absolutely awful, and has not improved). It is a mess.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/1/8877129/apple-music-icloud-problems
Beyond that, iTunes on Windows doesn't scale to high DPI displays and looks either incredibly ugly, or the UI elements are broken, depending on the type of scaling you use (MS has created thorough APIs for scaling and has had them for years, since before Windows 7. Apple has never updated iTunes to follow them, and in fact the new iTunes design scales even worse than the old one).
Music the service itself has some issues, but it is not bad. The biggest issues are Match ruining people's existing music collections and infecting Music with wrong copies of songs, with no way of fixing it, as well as the bad iTunes interface. Even if they fix the Music service issues (Beats1 going offline, people getting errors playing certain songs) the whole package will still be broken because iTunes will still be broken.
I was hoping that the store experience would be similar to what I experience in other Apple interfaces. Ideally the experience in Apple Music would be the same as the iTunes Store iOS app. But it isn't. It is very difficult to find music unless you search for the specific artist. The app store has very well thought out genres and such that I can get to easily and see top selling songs and such. This interface should be carried over to Apple Music. It is the Apple way to keep easy and simple interfaces the same across platforms and apps as much as possible. I was subscribe to beats music and spotify and find they are trying to create those interfaces.
LOL one plus that is stupid but I like is that my music albums (when you click on them) the color scheme of the screen matches the general color scheme of the album cover. I really like that because it creates the mood of the album. Big plus for something small and thoughtful that Apple added.
LOL one plus that is stupid but I like is that my music albums (when you click on them) the color scheme of the screen matches the general color scheme of the album cover. I really like that because it creates the mood of the album. Big plus for something small and thoughtful that Apple added.
It's a nice design, but at the cost of readability sometimes, especially the status bar. If only they kept the status bar opaque.
Match completely messed up my library last year and I deactivated it. Now they are forcing it on people and it messed up again.